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The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever
- fondue 16y agoI feel dumb that I'm stuck on level 2. I assume it's a form submission ...
- chaosmachine 16y agoI tried adding a submit button with firebug, but that didn't accomplish anything.
- what 16y agoMe too. Tried base64 decoding the viewstate value, looked like garbage to me. Also tried changing the stuff in formbox to inputs, no luck. Anyone get passed step 2?
- astrodust 16y agoThat's typically just general ASP session tracking stuff. They might sneak something in there, though.
- what 16y agoheh, over thinking
- Titanous 16y agoYeah, I'm on level 8, which is where is starts getting hard. EDIT: Got it. That was fun.
- ttol 16y agolevel 8 is fun. reminds me of picture books when i was younger
- PaulJoslin 16y agoYeah I'm on 8. Then I realised I was at work and I should really save it for later.
- watty 16y agoAhhh stuck on 8 too... what is the fox symbol? It's killing me!! I recognized it... FoxPro
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- rokhayakebe 16y agoAny tips on Level 5
- LargeWu 16y agoStuck. I've obviously found the email it is referencing, but none of my answers seem to work.
- what 16y agoIf your answer takes you to a different page, then you've done it.
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- rokhayakebe 16y agoEmail? Hint: Google the image name.
- what 16y agoYeah, I don't recognize a bunch of the images in 8. Bleh. ...Ok, I give up. Nevermind, got it.
- rokhayakebe 16y ago5 (To my defense, I am no engineer/programmer)
- cx01 16y agoTake a close look at the img-tag in the source code...
- watty 16y agolook at the image src... what would you expect it to be?
- Hovertruck 16y agoYou're thinking of step 1.
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- whatusername 16y agoGo back to step 1 and look closely at the clue - and what you needed to guess.. (and compare that to where you are now if that doesn't work)
- astrodust 16y agoI think the puzzle is why they used ASP.
- Retric 16y agoI think the puzzle demonstrates they are idots, and the fact they are idiots is why they use ASP. http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/step1.aspx obvious ? http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/step2.aspx looking at the source it uses: Assets/Images/step3.png Change that to Assets/Images/step2.png stepthree.asp http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/stepthree.aspx hey it's Morse code !!! ... This has next to nothing to do with being a developer. But it's easy to create and far harder to solve so hey why not...
- daleharvey 16y agoas evidenced by a lot of the people in this thread, the first few answers may seem obvious in hindsight but 1. they need to warm people up for the puzzle, 2. everything seems obvious in hindsight, its very easy for smart people miss simple thing. calling them idiots for making the first few questions easier and for using asp is miles away from what I see hacker news as, bit sad to see this upvoted.
- jasonlotito 16y agoIndeed, I'm on 14 at the moment, and having a blast with this. Some really interesting riddles.
- rayb0t 16y agoI am stuck on this one (14), atm.
- Retric 16y agoThanks, that's what I was looking for they are riddles and not puzzles. With programming for any given puzzle there are thousands of equally valid solutions. However, a riddle has only one fairly arbitrary solution. EX: I am thinking of a sweet number between 1 and 10. What is it? A: It's pie! Get it because it's a sweet number...
- kmak 16y agoI'm working on the language math. Seems to take quite a bit of time just looking things up!
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoSave the clues, maybe you need them at the end t-h-i-s ...
- kmak 16y agoYou need them in one of the earlier puzzles.
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- needsomehelp2 16y agostuck at level 3
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- mcknz 16y agolooks like someone found notpron. http://www.deathball.net/notpron/ http://www.deathball.net/notpron/
- sjf 16y agoYeah, and http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
- Keyframe 16y agoThis is fun, I'm on 7 now - was easy until now. Might as well get a coffee. edit: OK, 8 is really tough.
- BudVVeezer 16y agoSeven was where I got stuck as well.
- PaulJoslin 16y agoclue is in the colours and image name.
- Keyframe 16y agoalso, think of the old calculator tricks where you spell with numbers
- tvon 16y agoI haven't figured out what two things in 8 are supposed to be.. at least the obvious thing doesn't make sense in that context...
- Keyframe 16y agoI got stuck on 8, here is what i got so far: (Ruby-Ru) + (FoxPro-Kung Fu Panda-XX)+ (Python-K-T-(hay-A)) + S (CD-PHI-XX) + (JAVA-XX-J) + (XX+H-(G))+Te+R+XX where XX is what I don't know
- jasonlotito 16y ago(Ruby-Ru) + (FoxPro-Kung Fu Panda-XX)+ The panda is Po, and I assume the other is Fox. (CD-PHI-XX) + (JAVA-XX-J) + Should be (Delphi - PHI - EL) + (Java - VA - J) EL is the initials of Emmeril, and VA is of course Virginia abbreviated. I'm still stuck on the boot. =/
- watty 16y agoFoxPro - Po - Fox It's an "ugg" not a boot!
- lincolnq 16y agoHint on the calculator words one? I think I solved them all but it won't let me past.
- jasonlotito 16y agoThe riddle was given in a certain way. The answer is expected in the same manner.
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- maxwin 16y agoBig hint: need to find a way to convert words into numbers
- ssayles 16y agoSubmitted the correct pass phrase for 5, but stumped as to what to do next. I'm assuming the 404 is supposed to happen?
- what 16y agoStuck on 9. Think I'll stop before I lose my whole day.
- maxwin 16y agohint: The name of the picture might suggest something.
- chaosprophet 16y agohint: You might want to do some image manipulation. another hint: After 8, this is really really simple.
- what 16y agoI guess 8 killed my brain. Figured it has something to do with the image, but I'm stumped.
- chaosprophet 16y agoOkay, another hint: data URIs.
- what 16y agoOK 9 is just dumb. Opened the image in vim.
- aidenn0 16y agoI'm totally stuck on level 13. It's been a breeze so far (fortunately my wife wears "uggs" that one took me a minute to figure out, it would have been impossible before I met her). I'm guessing from the title it has to do with the CSS, but the CSS just looks odd, I'm not even sure why the text is showing up with display:none [edit] okay I found something hidden in the stylesheet but no clue what it means
- jasonlotito 16y agoDon't give away the answer when you find it! =)
- trafficlight 16y agoI see the stylesheet weirdness but I can't figure out what they are referring to.
- powrtoch 16y agoStuck on level 10... feel stupid because it seems no one else has gotten stuck on level 10.
- grandpa 16y agoYngvghqr naq ybatvghqr
- watty 16y agoCompletely stuck on 15... the movie "Homegrown" fits but there must be another...
- zepolen 16y agoIs 14 any way programming related or is my hunch correct and I've got to find an album which has all those songs in it?
- watty 16y agoNot programming related. Hint: track #, band name
- jasonlotito 16y agoMurder in the First also fits if you just go by one thing, but I have a feeling there are other clues. There is only one right answer, and it fits perfectly. Now, if I can only find it.
- tbrooks 16y agoSo does Shrek
- grandpa 16y agoRnpu zbivr vf pbaarpgrq gb gur bar rvgure fvqr bs vg ol na npgbe jub fgneerq va obgu. Va guvf pnfr, Wbua Yvgutbj (Sbbgybbfr) naq Zbetna Serrzna (Qnex Xavtug).
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- tbrooks 16y agoSomeone has already posted a cheat sheet: http://allaroundgeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/toughest-developer-puzzle-ever-2.html http://allaroundgeek.blogspot.com/2010/06/toughest-developer...
- powrtoch 16y ago19? Anybody?
- ciab 16y agoYep stuck on 16 - I can find my way to blind alley's show room - but then what?